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- Social Science, Political Science
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- Biopolitics of Gender
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- Feminism & Feminist Theory, Public Policy / General, Gender Studies, History & Theory, Sociology / Social Theory
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- 2017
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- Textbook
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- Trade Paperback
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- English
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Michel Foucault identified sexuality as one of the defining biopolitical technologies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As Jemima Repo argues in this book, -gender- has come to be the major sexual signifier of the mid-twentieth and early twenty-first century. In fact, in this historical excavation of the biopolitical significance of the term, she argues that it could not have emerged at any other time. Repo shows that gender is not originally a feminist term, but emerged from the study of intersex and transsexual persons in the fields of sexology and psychology in the1950s and 1960s. Prior to the 1950s gender was used to refer to various types of any number of phenomena - sometimes sex, but not necessarily. Its only regular usage was in linguistics, where it was used to classify nouns as masculine, feminine, or neuter. In the mid-twentieth century, gender shifted from being a nominator of types to designating the sexual order of things. As with sexuality in the Victorian period, over the last sixty years, the notion of gender has become an entire field of knowledge. Feminists famously took up the term in the 1970s to challenge biological determinism, and in government, -women- have been replaced by -gender- in policy-making processes that aim to advance equality between women and men. Gender has also become a key variable in social scientific surveys of different socio-political phenomena like voting, representation, employment, salaries, and parental leave decisions. The Biopolitics of Gender analyzes the strategies and tactics of power involved in the use of -gender- in sexology and psychology, and subsequently its reversal and counter-deployment by feminists in the 1970s and 1980s. It critiques the emergence of gender in demographic science and the implications of this genealogy for feminist theory and politics today. Drawing on a wide variety of historical and contemporary sources, the book makes a major theoretical argument about gender as a historically specific apparatus of biopower and calls into question the emancipatory potential of the category in feminist theory and politics.
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Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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0190691514
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9780190691516
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Biopolitics of Gender
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Feminism & Feminist Theory, Public Policy / General, Gender Studies, History & Theory, Sociology / Social Theory
Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
232 Pages
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Item Length
6.1 in
Item Height
1.3 in
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9.3 in
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22.6 Oz
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"The Biopolitics of Gender offers a revolutionary overview of the concept of gender. ... I cannot overstate the importance of such a consideration of gender at this point in time; it is essential to review the usefulness of gender in feminist arguments by taking into account the background against which the term was devised." --Journal of Gender Studies "[Repo's] welcome contribution offers an innovative and powerful response to the long-standing question: 'What does Foucault have to say to feminist theory?'" --Feminist Review "A work of critique as emancipatory knowledge-production, this book carves out new openings that must be returned to, expanded upon, deliberated, as we carry on the always precarious work of our entanglements, strategic contingencies, the patient labor of our diverse and unsettled inquiries in the name of unempty dreams." --Hypatia "Given that 'gender is not a synonym for women,' what then does it signify? How have feminist challenges to biological determinism become bureaucratized as capitalist biopolitics and 'state feminisms'? In this provocative genealogical study of gender, Jemima Repo answers these questions and challenges us to 'unlearn' what we think we already know." --Terrell Carver, Professor of Political Theory, University of Bristol "In this groundbreaking reappraisal of both Foucault and feminism, Repo shows how gender became an apparatus for the regulation of life processes, and gender equality policy became embedded in governmental, bioeconomic projects to optimize population management. Such projects have, she argues, been fortified by feminism while also relying on disturbing differentiations between women's reproductive worth. Boldly arguing for a provisional suspension of 'all theories of gender,' The Biopolitics of Gender assesses the distribution of inequality constitutive of gender equality." --Penelope Lisa Deutscher, Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University "Gender is a useful category for feminism. However, it is also an instrument of biopower. Gender is a double-edged sword - both critical and normative. Jemima Repo's powerful argument elaborates on Foucault's work to trace the genealogy of gender from the invention of the concept in a medical context in the 1950s through its feminist appropriation in the 1970s to contemporary neoliberal uses of gender equality. This original and important book thus turns the tables around: it makes trouble in gender studies, as feminist politics appear entangled in neoliberal biopolitics." --ric Fassin, Professor of Sociology, Paris 8 University "Consistently attentive to the intersections of sexuality, race, and class, the book will be essential reading for students of political theory, women's studies, and queer theory." --CHOICE "This is a groundbreaking work. Jemima Repo has written a genealogy of gender that upends common approaches to gender in feminism. Throughout, Repo's arguments are scholarly and provocative, and they left this reader unable to think about gender in the way I had before reading the book." --Perspectives on Politics, A work of critique as emancipatory knowledge-production, this book carves out new openings that must be returned to, expanded upon, deliberated, as we carry on the always precarious work of our entanglements, strategic contingencies, the patient labor of our diverse and unsettled inquiries in the name of unempty dreams.", "A work of critique as emancipatory knowledge-production, this book carves out new openings that must be returned to, expanded upon, deliberated, as we carry on the always precarious work of our entanglements, strategic contingencies, the patient labor of our diverse and unsettled inquiries in the name of unempty dreams." --Hypatia "Given that 'gender is not a synonym for women,' what then does it signify? How have feminist challenges to biological determinism become bureaucratized as capitalist biopolitics and 'state feminisms'? In this provocative genealogical study of gender, Jemima Repo answers these questions and challenges us to 'unlearn' what we think we already know." --Terrell Carver, Professor of Political Theory, University of Bristol "In this groundbreaking reappraisal of both Foucault and feminism, Repo shows how gender became an apparatus for the regulation of life processes, and gender equality policy became embedded in governmental, bioeconomic projects to optimize population management. Such projects have, she argues, been fortified by feminism while also relying on disturbing differentiations between women's reproductive worth. Boldly arguing for a provisional suspension of 'all theories of gender,' The Biopolitics of Gender assesses the distribution of inequality constitutive of gender equality." --Penelope Lisa Deutscher, Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University "Gender is a useful category for feminism. However, it is also an instrument of biopower. Gender is a double-edged sword - both critical and normative. Jemima Repo's powerful argument elaborates on Foucault's work to trace the genealogy of gender from the invention of the concept in a medical context in the 1950s through its feminist appropriation in the 1970s to contemporary neoliberal uses of gender equality. This original and important book thus turns the tables around: it makes trouble in gender studies, as feminist politics appear entangled in neoliberal biopolitics." --ric Fassin, Professor of Sociology, Paris 8 University "Consistently attentive to the intersections of sexuality, race, and class, the book will be essential reading for students of political theory, women's studies, and queer theory." --CHOICE "This is a groundbreaking work. Jemima Repo has written a genealogy of gender that upends common approaches to gender in feminism. Throughout, Repo's arguments are scholarly and provocative, and they left this reader unable to think about gender in the way I had before reading the book." --Perspectives on Politics, "The Biopolitics of Gender is an illuminating and important study, which reconfigures many taken-for-granted assumptions about the notion of gender and its role in feminist theory as well as politics. It is essential reading not only for feminist scholars, but also for those engaged in the task of critiquing neoliberal power structures." -- Boglárka Kiss, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (24.1) "The Biopolitics of Gender offers a revolutionary overview of the concept of gender. ... I cannot overstate the importance of such a consideration of gender at this point in time; it is essential to review the usefulness of gender in feminist arguments by taking into account the background against which the term was devised." --Journal of Gender Studies "[Repo's] welcome contribution offers an innovative and powerful response to the long-standing question: 'What does Foucault have to say to feminist theory?'" --Feminist Review "A work of critique as emancipatory knowledge-production, this book carves out new openings that must be returned to, expanded upon, deliberated, as we carry on the always precarious work of our entanglements, strategic contingencies, the patient labor of our diverse and unsettled inquiries in the name of unempty dreams." --Hypatia "Given that 'gender is not a synonym for women,' what then does it signify? How have feminist challenges to biological determinism become bureaucratized as capitalist biopolitics and 'state feminisms'? In this provocative genealogical study of gender, Jemima Repo answers these questions and challenges us to 'unlearn' what we think we already know." --Terrell Carver, Professor of Political Theory, University of Bristol "In this groundbreaking reappraisal of both Foucault and feminism, Repo shows how gender became an apparatus for the regulation of life processes, and gender equality policy became embedded in governmental, bioeconomic projects to optimize population management. Such projects have, she argues, been fortified by feminism while also relying on disturbing differentiations between women's reproductive worth. Boldly arguing for a provisional suspension of 'all theories of gender,' The Biopolitics of Gender assesses the distribution of inequality constitutive of gender equality." --Penelope Lisa Deutscher, Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University "Gender is a useful category for feminism. However, it is also an instrument of biopower. Gender is a double-edged sword - both critical and normative. Jemima Repo's powerful argument elaborates on Foucault's work to trace the genealogy of gender from the invention of the concept in a medical context in the 1950s through its feminist appropriation in the 1970s to contemporary neoliberal uses of gender equality. This original and important book thus turns the tables around: it makes trouble in gender studies, as feminist politics appear entangled in neoliberal biopolitics." --Éric Fassin, Professor of Sociology, Paris 8 University "Consistently attentive to the intersections of sexuality, race, and class, the book will be essential reading for students of political theory, women's studies, and queer theory." --CHOICE "This is a groundbreaking work. Jemima Repo has written a genealogy of gender that upends common approaches to gender in feminism. Throughout, Repo's arguments are scholarly and provocative, and they left this reader unable to think about gender in the way I had before reading the book." --Perspectives on Politics
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: The Birth of Gender: Social Control, Hermaphroditism, and the New Postwar Sexual Apparatus Chapter 2: The Sex/Gender Split, Transsexualism, and the Psychoanalytic Engineering of Capitalist Life Chapter 3: Feminist Deployments of Gender Chapter 4: The Demographic Problematization of Gender Chapter 5: Gender Equality as Neoliberal Governmentality Chapter 6: Feminism and Biopolitics: Complicities and Counter-Movements Notes References Index
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2017
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305.42
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23
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